I get a little workplace gift as the academic year closes. Similar:Watching a National Guard helicopter lift off after an EMS displayJust spending an August evening with the…PersonalMore 18th Century fun @fortligonierMore 18th Century fun @fortligonierPersonalWhy scientists should care about artMy artsy daughter loves stories about sc…ArtFirst Day in the Theatre for Twelfth Night (May…
At the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland. She: “Use that one, because we both look derpy.” Similar:Fight choreography via teleconference. As You Like It @steelcityshakespearePersonalSupport the humans who make art in your community. Death of a Salesman. #wirerecorderlife …Support the humans who make art in your …PersonalOur 2014 class banner was an iPad.…
Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light…
My simulation project does not require me to master medieval daub and wattle architecture. But sadly, I now know just enough to be disappointed by this first attempt. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay #keepgoing Similar:What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood? @shu_hog… AmusingSo many dials to polish. More…
Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:The other day I did a socialize with some of my Humanities colleagues. (I am proud of myse…PersonalAnother 10sq cm of a beautiful #steampunk control panel for a personal #neovictorian #blen…AestheticsThe Daughter's 21st Birthday Current_EventsI apologize for this one. R2-D2 stars in…
Have you seen Apple’s “Crush” ad? It features a huge huge hydraulic press crushing musical instruments, art supplies, google-eyed toys, and other beloved artifacts of imagination and creativity. I remember seeing a video years ago that showed how a smartphone replaced a desktop full of tools like a calculator, notepad, rolodex, and so forth. But…
I’m still teaching journalism and my usual courses, but after 21 years I’ve stepped aside as faculty adviser to the Setonian. The student voice of the hill (founded in 1919) will continue to evolve. First published in 1919, The Setonian not only predates SHU’s journalism major, it also predates the majestic London planetrees that the…
A Brazilian couple bought a deforested ranch and spent decades planting over 2 million trees. #hope #life #stewardship #earth #ispeakforthetrees Similar:My son showed me #PacificRim.My son showed me #PacificRim. Liked the …CybercultureLive theater. August Wilson's Jitney, in the back yard of the August Wilson House.PersonalShakespeare's WillPersonalDean Jones Dead: Disney Actor Was 84″The Love Bug” was…
A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump every piece of this carefully honed metal letterpress type into the river. It was an act of retribution against his business partner, Emery Walker, whom he believed was attempting to swindle him. With its extra-wide capital letters, diamond shaped punctuation and…
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So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Every few years, I Google the name of the kid who saw "The Empire Strikes Back" the night …HistoryMy son just handed me my serving of noodles in the butter substitute container. Recycling.AmusingA shooting, the president snatched away – this episode of…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:A Note of Recognition for: Filmation's ''Star Trek'' AnimatorsEven if the animation of Star Trek was l…AestheticsI am happy with how this turned out. My mother told me about this story when I was little,…PersonalBlank template details and…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:I went down fighting.PersonalFaculty assembling in launch tube beneath Salvitti Gym. #classof2017 @setonhilluniversityPersonalTARDIS from today's 3D printing class.AestheticsAnother 10sq cm section of a #neovictorian control panel for a personal #blender3D #steamp…AestheticsTwo classes will turn in final revisions at midnight Sunday, and final multimedia project…Still plenty of work…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:I asked my geekling whether she was ready for bed…I asked my #geekling whether she was rea…AmusingPresenting at #NEMLA session 8.1 Friday. “Hacking English: Examining a multimedia sandbox …Academia The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley…
Nothing in this stack is pressing, but they do include rough drafts of final papers, so that will involve concentration and tact and empathy and time. Similar:Googling Is for Old People. That’s a Problem for Google.When I ask my students to use the librar…AcademiaWhen Is Asking the Question Part of the News? (Rarely.) We mostly only encounter…
Here’s the underlying problem. We have an operating image of thought, an understanding of what thought is and how to make thought productive of knowledge and truth through the use of various methods. This image and its methods are, of course, products of human history. They change over time, in different cultures, and so on.…
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